FDA finally responds to GMO-labeling campaign but differs on numbers of supporters

[SecularMotion]

Tuesday marked the deadline for the Food and Drug Administration to respond to the "Just Label It" petition, urging the agency to label genetically modified foods for American consumers.

The anti-climactic response was essentially: We've made no decision and require more time.

This is not an uncommon response and organizers say they are hopeful for something more substantive soon. But a more immediate source of friction involves the way the agency counts petitioners versus the way Just Label It does.

Organizers say the campaign garnered more than a million supporters, far more than any other petition brought to the FDA in history. But the FDA disagrees. By its count the number is: 394.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-gmolabeling-campaign-claims-a-million-supporters-but-fda-doesnt-agree-20120328,0,1662591.story

[PatrickPearce]

1. Don't eat GMO!

Hard to do. But GMO will kill you.

[think]

2. Labeling GMOs would elminiate pollen drift too

http://ohioline.osu.edu/agf-fact/0153.html

[Trillo]

3. One person one vote appears to have moved to one dollar one vote some time back.

This statistics anomaly, 1,000,000(+):394 seems a logical extension of the prior movement. Just get rid of the "vote" semantics, and you are left with one dollar.

[think]

4. The FDA's fuzzy math is most telling of how the mind set is at the agency

We might as start calling it what it is: "The Monsanto Administration Agency"...